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Just MHO, Trump fanboys over dictators because he's got that weird "manly gay" vibe that just a few people have. I think he's so repressed that he doesn't even admit it to himself, but he "wants" Putin so he acts like Putin to impress Putin.

That repression would explain a lot, wouldn't it? Right down to being spanked with a copy of the Times with a fake cover.

PS: People can be fine Nazi's, but Nazi's are never fine people.

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Beatles can be ripped off and their music mutilated, but it wasn't by the Monkees. Instead, they were created by Hollywood moguls (hence The Pre-Fab Four), but the music was actually pretty catchy. The person responsible was Don Kirschner, an early day Simon Cowell.

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My understanding is that Agent Orange got spanked with a rolled-up copy of Forbes. But if it was a fake magazine, then it was Time, not the Times, which is a newspaper.

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I meant "Time" not "Times" but my brain was a bit off. I really feel a distaste for that whole episode, and the "rumored pee tapes" as well.

Funny how the report mentions Trump being afraid Russia would release tapes.

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Was it Canada? 😀 (Answered before I watched the video).

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Slight correction. Britain did have a general election during WW2 - after VE day, but the war in the Pacific was still raging. Churchill lost the election. Oddly, it was during the Potsdam visit of Stalin, Churchill and Truman, so Britain actually switched leaders during that summit. And of course, the US did hold elections during WW2 - FDR was elected to his 4th term in November 1944 when the outcome of the war was still in doubt.

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Thank you for the slight correction.

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De nada. 😊

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Lots of laughs, because otherwise I'd cry.

Elon Invented Tesla, on the sippy cup, and there are so many more about this "dude".

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Damn good toon and blog...love Belushie bandaid.

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Belushi has only one "e" and it's not terminal.

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Great cartoon and commentary. Bluto?

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Another slight correction: While it's true Poland didn't invade Germany, they did control East Prussia during the interwar period. The free city-state, Danzig-Danzig (now Gdansk) was set up in order to break the hold of the Junkers over German society. Poland's refusal to negotiate a transfer to German authority was the political incitant to the subsequent invasion and occupation of Breslau and the collapse and overturning of the Polish government. The more or less analogous situation in Ukraine led to the invasion of Crimea, which had been ceded to Ukraine in 1955, by Nikita Krushchev, who favored Ukrainian embroidery throughout his tenure, proudly wearing their national dress until he was ousted by Kosygin and Brezhnev.

Also, Strom Thurmond was a Democrat until 1948 when he ran for the Presidency as a Dixiecrat. After that he returned to the Democratic fold until 1960, when he switched to the Republican Party who had become more reliably racist.

Even so, your version of history is more accurate than Trumps. By a country mile (1.6 km)!

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Yes. Frederick Douglass’s name tho I think you meant on the chalkboard. It’s all still brilliant & I’m so damn tired.

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I'm confused. Where on the chalkboard do you think I meant to put Frederick Douglass?

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Oh, you meant in the blog, not the chalkboard. Yes, I corrected it.

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Sorry I wasn’t clear. My brain thought you could read it.

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